Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means that they won't go to college. Like most tracking systems (Washington, D.C. among other cities has one) this hurts the poor. In addition the quality of Cambridge schools varies greatly depending on what area they are in. Upper city school libraries have eight books per student while lower city schools have three...
...that the housing problem is fanning popular discontent about inflation. Moreover, rising pressures in the housing market may well aggravate tension in the ghettos. Rent strikes, led by predominantly Negro tenant unions, have occurred recently in St. Louis, Los Angeles and other cities. The strikers demand better living conditions, lower rents-or both. In Milwaukee, 14 couples and their 70 children not long ago took up unauthorized residence in an abandoned Army disciplinary barracks. The squatters have dubbed the place "Fort Homeless...
Even if the Government would permit it, most S. & L.s and mutual savings banks could not afford to raise the rates they pay to depositors. The bulk of their assets is invested in 20-year to 30-year mortgage loans at the much lower interest rates of bygone years. Insurance companies, normally the third biggest source of mortgage money, have increasingly withdrawn from the housing field. Wary of inflation and eager to improve their profits, they are funneling most of their property loans into projects in which they become part owners...
...same I decided to call the Ticket Office. The gentleman to whom I spoke was not only sympathetic but also unusually informative. I learned there are six such blind spots in each of the thirty-seven sections. as well as an undetermined number of seats in the lower bleachers of section 31 on the Harvard side and of the corresponding section on the opponent's side which are wholly or largely blocked by the Team's presence...
...committee members said they took this lower fine into account when recommending legal action. "We tried to enforce the rule with the minimum penalty." Wilson said...